The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-25
FOUND IN THE MAILS.
The Queer Assortment Sent From One
Part Of the Country to the Other.

SIT is not surprising that We hear at
the delivery window, or at my Office,
once in while of an article that has
been lost" said Assistant Postmaster
Woodward yesterday to lsporter for
the herald, as he glanced over several
large sheets of paper that lay on his
desks
These sheets were the lists of the
hundreds of articles found in the rail
road mail cars. They had either broken
loose from other packages or had been
sent poorly tied up, or placed in the
bags without proper addresses by the
postofice clerks.
ARTICLES of every description are
enumerated here" said he. 1.-The
larger portion of the list consists of
sums of money from one cent to $50.
Then there sre innumerable postage
stamps, packages of printed matter,
playing cards, electrotypes, rubber
stamps, samples OF prints, lace, yarn,
worsted, crochet needles, pocketbooks,
knives and broken bottles. In fact,
| thought of, and on this list / notice
the following interesting items:
Two boxes catarrh remedy, two
boxes salve, two and half dozen
SPOONS, packages of seed, pair
of suspenders, book entitled Test of
Christ, box of pain-killer, bean bag.
patent hoodwink, patent window catch,
box of damaged bonnets, an Easter
card, paper of hair-pins, cake of wax,
collection of stamps, hymn-book,
Bible, testament, box OF strawberries,
section of false teeth, boys pants and
waist, glass diamond, two boxes of kill
corns, package of pool checks, box of
pills, false mustache, lady's shirt, pilot
ograph, of daisy girl, Buffalo Bill
medal, plug of tobacco, package of
ladies' stock and garters,
brass earring, lady's Jersey,
pool ball, an cd carpet grip
Isack, four plated collar buttons,
box of 'Brahmo YAM an old tooth
pick, a folding cradle, eight cigars,
seven ounces OF vanilla beans, drum
head, very snide ring, sample sack of
-four, fourteen coffin screws, bangle
dime, seven small gilded clothespins, 8
brass medal, pictures of Grover Cleve-
land, DR.. Burchard, Mrs. Cleveland,
Dan Lamont, David B. Hill, Nodjeska,
Fannie Davenport, Maud Granger lin
tights) Sarah Bernhardt, Lilly Langtry,
Lillian Lewis and many others.
| There are hundreds of photographs
of men and women whose names are
not attached, hundreds OF books and
pamphlets on all subjects, stuffed
birds, collections of birds eggs, boxes
and bottles of medicine, patent rubber
articles, such as igarters and sleeve
holders, Autographs of all kinds, but
tons, secret society emblems, and, in
fact, almost every article that can be
thought of, except q normal-sized ele-
plant.
"All of these articles found loose in
the m ails are kept for a certain length
of time By the chief clerk of the rail-
way mail division that they are found
on. Later they are sent to Washing
sale. Are you surprised when tell
you that we have inquiries in regard to
lost articles once in awhile2"
Jim Martin, of the Burlington Il
J Missouri Railway Mail Service. speak
ing of articles found loose in mail bags,
said, 1.-THE queerest thing that ever
saw was q plum pudding, big one,
too; and you can bet it was bad look
ing object when it struck its destina
ton. In emptying q small bag once l
became terribly frightened. heard a
buzzing in among the mail matter, and
the first thought that come to my mind
was that of finding a rattlesnake. l
reached over with big iron club and
commenced to turn over the packages
to find 1t. The noise increased. The
remainder of the boys in the car armed
themselves with clubs, but when 1
found the Package from whence the
noise came I discovered that it was
only queen bee that had been for
wsrded to somebody that had been
starting Q hive."-Omaha Herald.